Legende doree, ou, Sommaire de l'histoire des freres Mendians dans l'Ordre de Dominique, & de Francʹois
Subtitle: comprenant briefuement & veritablement l'origine, le progrez, la doctrine & les combats d'iceux : tant contre l'eglise gallicane principalement, que cotre les papes & entr'eux mesmes depuis quatre cens ans
Contributors: Maire, Joannes, bookseller; Fitzwilliam, William Charles de Meuron, Earl, 1872-1943, former owner
Publisher: Pour Iean le Maire
Published: 1608
Place of publication: A Leyden
Language: fre
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders; Early works to 1800; Dominicans; Franciscans; History
Other titles: Sommaire de l'histoire des freres Mendians dans l'Ordre de Dominique, & de Francʹois
Notes: Signatures: A-Ḱı (final leaf blank)

I2 missigned H2.

Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces; initials.

The title page verso contains an "anagramme sur le nom de l'autheur," being "NVL GAIN IRECOIS," [i.e. NICOLAS VIGNIER].

Barbier, A.A.  Ouvrages anonymes, 1088

BM (compact ed.), vol. 26, p. 76, col. 796

BM (compact ed.), vol. 7, p. 533, col. 456

BM STC French, 1601-1700, p 552

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early leather (sheep or calf) panelled in double-ruled gilt. An unidentified, armorial super-ex-libris is present on both covers. The spine is ruled in gilt with gilt fleurons in each compartment. All text block edges are sprinkled red. The armorial bookplate of the Earl of Fitzwilliam is present on the front pastedown. Several early, fragmentary, shorthand inscriptions are present on the front pastedowsn and front free endpapers.